Virginia Woolf Quotes
Born Adeline Virginia Stephen, she was a British writer who is considered to be one of the foremost modernist/feminist literary figures of the twentieth century.
(1882 - 1941)
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A biography is considered complete if it merely accounts for six or seven selves, whereas a person may well have as many as a thousand.
[Literature]
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A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.
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A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.
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A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
[Writers And Writing]
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Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders.
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Arrange whatever pieces come your way.
[Acceptance]
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As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
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As for my next book, I am going to hold myself from writing it till I have it impending in me: grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear, pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall.
[Writers And Writing]
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Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.
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Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book shown to him by heart, and his friends can only read the title.
[The Past]
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Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.
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Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.
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For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
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For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?
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Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.
[Bodies]
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Have you any notion how many books are written about women in the course of one year? Have you any notion how many are written by men? Are you aware that you are, perhaps, the most discussed animal in the universe?
[Women]
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Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
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I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.
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I have lost friends, some by death ... others by sheer inability to cross the street.
[Friendship]
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